Doyers Street

Doyers Street is a 200-foot-long street in the heart of Chinatown in Manhattan, New York City, running south from Pell Street to the intersection of the Bowery, Chatham Square, and Division Street. It was named for the Dutch immigrant Hendrik Doyer, who settled in the Bowery in 1791. From 1893 to 1911, Doyers Street was the site of the first Chinese-language theatre in the city, and it later became a rescue mission for the homeless. During the 1930s, the street became known as "Bloody Angle"due to the large number of deaths in conflicts between the Tongs (who mostly used hatchets), and, by 1994, more people died at Doyers Street than at any other intersection in the country. As Pell Street connects to the Bowery a few feet from Doyers, Doyers Street has often been criticized as useless, and it became very lightly used.